Clarence Page`s defense of the recently proclaimed conscientious objectors (”Volunteers come face to face with military reality,” Dec. 5) is as sad as the referred-to high school students who can`t find Canada on a map. It`s interesting that these objectors don`t recognize their ”morality”
until they might have to do what they have committed to do. I guess this
”conscientiousness thing” is suppressed by pay, free housing, food, training, college tuition guarantees and, in some cases, being saved from a far worse life.
Mr. Page seems to object to the real world in favor of one in which obligations aren`t attached to rights and privileges: Isn`t it too bad that one sometimes has to do things one doesn`t necessarily want to do?
I`ll volunteer to show Mr. Page and his friends the places on the map where invasions like the one of Kuwait have caused lifetimes of suppression and strife.
